Campanula divaricata (small bonny bellflower)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Campanula divaricata, photographed by Michael J. Papay — fig. a Michael J. Papay, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-11-23 / obs. 170015380

Campanula divaricata, photographed by the swamp ass — fig. e the swamp ass, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152076265

Campanula divaricata, photographed by Brian Gratwicke — fig. f Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 146829655

Campanula divaricata, photographed by Tom Field — fig. g Tom Field, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 99233974

Campanula divaricata, photographed by Derek Hennen — fig. h Derek Hennen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 104178718

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Native range 9 botanical countries

Native distribution of Campanula divaricata, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Alabama	ALA	NORTHERN AMERICA
Georgia	GEO
Kentucky	KTY
Maryland	MRY
North Carolina	NCA
South Carolina	SCA
Tennessee	TEN
Virginia	VRG
West Virginia	WVA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 320 in flower of 347 examined

82%

99%

97%

86%

80%

Proportion of examined Campanula divaricata in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	0	too few examined
Feb	0	1	too few examined
Mar	0	1	too few examined
Apr	0	2	too few examined
May	0	1	too few examined
Jun	0	2	too few examined
Jul	40	49	82%	69% to 90%
Aug	160	161	99%	97% to 100%
Sep	86	89	97%	91% to 99%
Oct	30	35	86%	71% to 94%
Nov	4	5	80%	38% to 96%
Dec	0	1	too few examined

Peak flowering in Aug. Each bar is the share of Campanula divaricata observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 320 of 347 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 2 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Campanula divaricata f. alba Fosberg
Campanula flexuosa Michx.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.